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“Aerial structure repairs will close stations on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines” this weekend

By Prince Of Petworth

From WMATA:

“On Saturday, Oct. 4, and Sunday Oct. 5, free shuttle buses will replace trains between Eastern Market and Minnesota Av/Benning Road on the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines.

Potomac Av and Stadium-Armory stations will be closed.

Two express buses will operate during the weekend. One will run from Eastern Market to Minnesota Av and the other will run from Eastern Market to Benning Road.

Two local shuttles will stop at each closed station along the Blue Line and Orange Line.

Crews will be repairing aerial structures. (more…)

Heads Up: This weekend “Buses replace trains from Foggy Bottom to Pentagon on Blue Line, Foggy Bottom to Court House on Orange & Silver lines”

By Prince Of Petworth

From WMATA:

“On Saturday, Sept. 27 and Sunday, Sept. 28, free shuttle buses will replace trains between Foggy Bottom and Pentagon on the Blue Line and Foggy Bottom and Court House on the Orange and Silver lines.

There will be no Blue Line train service at Pentagon, Pentagon City, and Crystal City, however Yellow Line service will be available. Crews will be working to replace fasteners and anchors as well as performing maintenance on the third rail and rail renewal to ensure reliability.

Additional weekend track work (more…)

“Is WMATA using Chat GPT for responses?”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

Is WMATA using Chat GPT to respond back to customer complaints about “Better Bus” issues? I thought maybe these were genuine responses but then my friend pointed out they were likely just Chat GPT and WMATA was actually not responding to me (the machine was :/). Two response examples attached. I hope I didn’t fall for AI… (more…)

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